Everett McKinley Dirksen Elementary School

What do students and teachers say about Dirksen?

In 2017,
students and teachers
in Chicago Public Schools participated in the 2017 CPS 5Essentials Survey, which asked questions about their school’s culture and climate. Everett McKinley Dirksen Elementary School’s performance on the 5Essentials (fig. 1) summarizes the participants’ answers to those survey questions as they relate to the 5Essentials.

Dirksen is organized for improvement

The 5Essentials can identify the ways in which a school is organized for school improvement. In fact, over two decades of research on Chicago Public Schools has shown that schools strong on three or more of these essentials were 10 times more likely to improve student learning than schools weak in three or more.